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| Title | Division I Men's Basketball Championship First & Second Rounds |
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| Publisher | National Collegiate Athletic Association |
| Date | March 15, 1990 - March 17, 1990 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | ID 2009-006, Box 7, Folder 7 |
| Original Collection | Athletics Department Records |
| Digital Collection | University of Houston Sports Championship Publications |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/champ |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
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| Transcript | Great Championship Gaines of the Past A View from the Midwest By BILL BENNER Indianapolis Star It was North Carolina versus Indiana. Goliath vs. Giant. It was Dean Smith versus Bob Knight. Genius versus Genius. By all rights, it was a match made in hoops heaven. Well, not exactly. For this 1984 NCAA championship East regional semifinal in Atlanta's Omni featured a Number One against a Number Un. Number one was North Carolina — 28-2, unbeaten (14-0) regular-season champion of the Atlantic Coast Conference whose two losses had been by a total of three points. Number "un" was Indiana — a 21-8 third-place finisher from the Big Ten Conference that was not only unranked, but probably as unheralded as any Hoosier team under Knight. Steve Alford, conferring with Indiana coach Bob Knight, led the Hoosiers to a 1984 East regional semifinal upset over North Carolina. The Tar Heels were a team Virginia coach Terry Holland had dared to label "the best ever" and one glance at the starting lineup told you that Holland's hyperbole had some substance to it. North Carolina's hand was as close to a royal flush — or five aces, perhaps — as one could hope. It featured two consensus all-Americas, Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins. Jordan, a junior, also was player of the year. The remaining starters included 6- 11 sophomore center Brad Daugherty, consummate 6-8 senior Matt Doherty, who had become only the second player in ACC history to amass 1,000 points, 400 rebounds and 400 assists, and freshman point guard Kenny Smith, who had been the most sought-after backcourt player in the nation coming out of high school. Four of the Tar Heels had played on the team that had lost to Indiana in the national championship game at Philadelphia's Spectrum three years before. Seven had played on North Carolina's NCAA championship team in 1982. The Tar Heels were considered virtual locks for their third Final Four trip in four years. Against that, Indiana brought to Atlanta a mix-and-match unit that Knight had tinkered with — 17 different starting lineups — all season long in an effort to find his best combination. In any form, experience was not its long suit. The Hoosiers had only one senior, guard Chuck Franz, but he was not a major contributor. Most of the production came from two players: freshman guard Steve Alford, he of the perfectly parted hair and the picture- perfect jump shot; and 7-2 junior center Uwe Blab, whose soft shots and hard hands had alternately pleased and frustrated Hoosier fans throughout his career. Indiana's other "usual" starters came from a group of four: Mike Giomi, a 6-8 sophomore; 6-5 Marty Simmons, another freshman; 6-2 sophomore Stew Robinson and 6-4 swingman Dan Dakich. By any account, Alford, Blab, et al. did not measure up to Jordan, Perkins & Co. And so they arrived in the Omni on a Thursday night in late March, North Carolina by virtue of a bye, then a second-round victory over Temple; the Hoosiers, also with a bye, advancing with a second-round 1984 East Regional semifinal Indiana 72 North Carolina 68 Site: Atlanta, Georgia nn TTT Indiana Giomi Simmons FGA FTA REB PF TP 2-4 3-4 6 4 7 1-1 2-5 2 2 4 Blab Dakich Alford Robinson 5-7 6-8 2-3 0-0 9-13 9-10 5-8 4-7 3 3 16 3 5 4 6 2 27 4 2 14 Meier Witte 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 2 1 0 0 0 0 Franz Team Totals North Carolina 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 24-37 24-35 2 28 19 72 y FG- FT- FGA FTA REB PF 8-17 10-12 9 3 3-8 1-2 7 5 1-3 1-2 4 2 TP 26 7 3 13 8 5 4 0 2 0 Perkins Doherty Daughert Jordan 6-14 1-2 1 5 0 2 10 3 3 5 0 0 0 1 0 1 Smith 3-8 2-2 Wolf Hale Popson Peterson 2-4 1-2 2-4 0-1 0-0 0-0 1-4 0-0 Exum 0-0 0-0 Team i Totals 26-62 16-23 37 27 68 Halftime: Officials: 16,723. Ind Tur ana 32, North Carolina 28 ner, Stitler, Tanco. Attendance: win over Richmond. It would be the fourth meeting between these two great programs. North Carolina owned a pair of regular-season victories over Indiana in 1978 and 1979. The Hoosiers, of course, had come back to register that national championship win in Philadelphia in 1981. But this time, virtually no one outside the state of Indiana gave the team much of a chance. Knight conceded, "Always before when we've played North Carolina, it's been a matchup of two really good teams. This time, there will be only one." Even Knight's former player and assistant, Mike Krzyzewski, who by this time was in his second year at Duke — and 112 |